I'm not sure I'll be able to entirely get away from Reddit, just since there are so many unique communities there (right now). But, I'm swapping over to Lemmy more and more, and getting away from my meme/casual subreddits.

I just put a metal ruler across it, and there's a noticeable gap

Bowden and Marlin

There's not these are pretty broken in sheets that I've had for a while

This to me looks like it's time to buy a new bed, stick with Creality or is there a better brand to upgrade to?

Well not necessarily, you just give the mod tools a different api to use. It'd be simple, but you'd still be restricting some stuff for api tools